San Leandro, CA Rental Property Rules: Rent Increase Notice (2026)

Civil Code § 827(b) already requires landlords statewide to give 30 days' notice for a rent increase of 10% or less and 60 days' notice for a larger increase. SLMC § 4-32-200 layers a local requirement on top: at the same time the landlord gives that state-required notice, the landlord must also provide notice of the availability of San Leandro's rent review procedure, and that notice must appear in the three predominant languages spoken in the City, as determined by the City Manager. Section 4-32-205 requires the notice to be in writing, to give the landlord's name, address and phone number, and to be personally delivered or posted and mailed by first-class, prepaid mail (service by mail is presumed complete within five days, rebuttably).

Section 4-32-210 spells out the required text, including the state 30/60-day thresholds and San Leandro's own review trigger: a tenant who receives an increase of more than 7% above last month's base rent, or one that follows a prior increase within 12 months, may ask the Rent Review Board to review it. That request goes to the Community Development Department at 835 East 14th Street and must be submitted within 21 calendar days of receiving the increase notice. If the landlord skips the city notice, § 4-32-200 makes the increase void and unenforceable, gives the tenant a complete defense in an unlawful detainer action over nonpayment of the illegal increase, and lets the tenant recover any illegal increase already paid; the landlord must then re-notice the tenant correctly before demanding or accepting any increase.